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jkim10's avatar
jkim10
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

It seems like Dropbox is filling up my hard drive

I am using dropbox for my work, and I mostly use excel files that do not exceed 30-40 MB.  But, it seems like about 3-4 GB is filling up everyday, while I do not download files with big size.  It s...
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NJtoTX
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Hi, I have a similar issue. I had 13 GB on my hard drive, did a search, Dropbox filled my hard drive and then failed to download more synced files and told me to free up space on my hard drive.  So now I have 3.9 GB free on my hard drive, and it's not going back up.

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Walter
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6 years ago

Hi NJtoTX; thanks for joining this discussion and sorry to hear about this.

 

Based on your description, I'm assuming that you searched for files that were set to be Online Only through the Smart Sync feature and upon that, the files synced down to your machine as local ones, thus taking up space on your hard drive.

 

Can you take a look at the overlay icons of your Dropbox folder's content and let me know if that's the case indeed? 

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